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A confederacy of dunces

Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress.Read more...

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I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. A masterwork of comedy * New York Times * A fine funny novel. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from -- Anthony Burgess Every reviewer has loved it. For once, everyone is right * Rolling Stone *Read more...